Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <50jb6s$6gh@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <dirk-0409960901420001@muffin.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de>,
>Dirk Froehling <dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>I use a Mac to download Apple II files all the time, with no problems
>>at all. I can download .shk files with Netscape or Anarchie, there is
>>no resource fork added and the files are directly useable on my GS.
>
>   As I responded to you in email, this has turned into a handful of
>Mac geeks saying "I never get this problem. It must never happen to
>others" vs the posts here and email saying that the problem DOES
>happen.  (Had one, slightly unclear email this afternoon implying that
>even with the resource fork remove Randy found, they STILL had the
>problem.  I told them to verify that and then post here so that you
>can help them some more)

OK, I now volunteer to assist people with these problems. Just send me
email with some info about how you downloaded and which program(s) you
used. Maybe we can then figure out what happens and add some hints
to avoid this to the FAQ.

It seems to me that the resource fork isn't the problem, since people
still have the problem after removing it (see above). So I think it
might a MacBinary header that gets added by the comm program.

>   The people that emailed me are just as real as a few people's
>experiencing zero problems. Deal with that.

Deal with what? I didn't say that nobody has problems.

>   I did mention the programs and the file type settings in the FAQ.
>I hope that solves most to all of the problems.

You didn't mention the programs on the Mac side, did you?
My sciibin for the Mac is available at

<ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu//apple2/mac/sciibin12.binhex4>

or 

<ftp://apple2.caltech.edu//Zocalo/pub/apple2/ARCHIVERS/
  sciibin.1.2.mac.sit.hqx>

It's free, of course.

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